Process of making felt uppers for shoes or slippers



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N. M OULTON.

PROCESS 0F MAKING FELT UPPBRS PoR SHOES o?. SLIPPERS. No. 275,249.

'Patented Apr. 3, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWLAND MOULTON, OF MERRIMAO, MASSACHUSETTS.

PROCESS OF MAKING FELT `UPPERSV FOR SHOES OR SLIPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,249, dated April 3, 1883. Application meu August 1,1882. (No mausi.)

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, NEWLAND MoUL'roN, of Merrimac, in the county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new useful Improvement in the Process of Making Felt Uppers for Shoes or Slippers, of which the following is a description suiciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specilication, in which- Figure l is a plan view of the cone used in this process Fig. 2, the two blanks after they are cut and removed from the cone 5 Fig. 3, one of the blanks after it has been hardened, felted, reduced in size, and forming the upper, ready for lasting.

This invention relates to an improvement for forming open-bottom seamless felt uppers for shoes and slippers.

The invention consists in the process hereinafter set forth.

In carrying out this process the cone shown in Fig. l is used. This cone is made cylindrical, with the curved or conical ends somewhat like the cone used in batting, except that it is shorter in proportion to its diameter. This cone is placed upon the former j ust as the cones in ordinary hat-forming are, and the web as it comes from the cards is carried completely around and over the said cone and Wound about itself to the thickness required. The web thus wound and shaped about the cone is then cut along the diagonal line a; x, Fig. 1, the usual groove, a, allowing the use 0f shears, forming blanks B B. These blanks are then hardened and t'elted bythe usual process used in'hatting, and which needs no special description, and are dried and surfaced as usual. Along the line y y a cut is made for the ankle-hole. This cut maybe made before or after they are lasted.

This process produces the open-bottom seamless upper shown in Fig. 3, which is the object and aim of the invention. No claim is herein iliade for this article, as it is the subject ol another patent. This upper is to be secured to a sole forming a completed slipper or shoe in any proposed way.

Having described myinvention, whatIclaim 1s The process herein described for forming seamless open-bottom felt uppers, which consists in the following steps: winding the web about the cone, cutting it, thus wound, on the diagonal line a: x, thus forming the blanks for two distinct uppers, hardening the blank thus formed, and felting it, all substantially as llerein set forth.

NEWLAND MOULTON.

Witnesses:

C. A. SHAW, ALFRED FAWGETT. 

